The Labor enquirer., 1887-02-19

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Coal miners in Alabama have strucl
for an adva nee Of 10 per cent in wags1
About 500 are out.
The wages of the coopers and laboferl
at the Cincinnati tobacco warehouses
have been cut from $l2 to $40 per week
and the men are out.
Central Labor Union of Boston, Mas
sachusetts. is boycottlng the shoe nails
tacks. lath nails, ETC.. okthe American
Tack company of Fairhaven, Massachu.
sets, because the company is employing
scab help in place of union men who
are on strike.-f
The labor commissioner Of Indiana
says that pauperism has increased 80
per cent in sixteen years.
New YORK, Feb. Sat the session Of
the agricultural convention, President
Reall said: "The workingmen are your
brothers and demand your interest and
sympathy. They are resisting tho tyr
amy Of capital l have studied the
principles of the Knights Of Labor and
they are truth. The men who would
swindle you are the men with whom
they contend" Reall was reelected
president. Several addresses coincidlng
with President Reall's'sentiments were
delivered.
Senator Burke of Illinois will intro
duce bill prepared by the stock yard
men touching upon the injustice now
practiced relative to money deposits
The following bills in the interest Of
labor have been introduced in the Con-
necticut legislature: To rrevent the
Pinkerton thugs being used by corpora
tons in the state. A bill to exempt $50
from foreign attachment, and one to ex-
empt $40. To repeal the tramp act. To
provide for a3factory inspector. To ap1
propriate 100000 for the purpose of
establishing state printing Office. To
prohibit the employment of women and
children for more than ten hours dav.
To require corporations to pay their en-
ployes weekly in lawful money to within
seven days of the date of payment.
EN- ployes OF the keystone Boot and
hoe company In Huntington, Pennsyl-
vania, have struck for uniform wages
and the hands are all out.
The strike Of the carpet workers in
Higgins & Co.'S factory, New York, still
continues. The strike was one of pure
sympathy, with the coal-handlers. The
hands informed Mr.. Higgins that they
would not work where coal was being
used which was furnished by men who
were taking the places of honest work
men. The number of hands whe went
out because they would not work where
stab coal is used is 1850. Of these
about 1900 are women and girls. No
scab c1al had been used in the factory
up to the time Of the strike. In fact
there are still eight tons of nnion coal
in the yard. according to- Mr.. Higgins,
enough to run the machinery about four
hours.
One Of fthe reasons why Mayor Hewitt
of New York City showed no disposf-
tion to secure settlement of the great
strike between the corporations and
their EN- ployes in New York and New
Jersey has been the difficulty with his
own employees who are dissatisfied with
their miserly compensation. They
struck last week at the Pequest blast
furnace of Hewitt &. Co., at Oxford,
New jersey, for al increase of 20 per
cent, To arbitrate the trouble they sub.
sequently returned to work.
Seven hundred men employed at the
fire blast furnaces at Sharpsville, Penn
sylvania, struck for al advance of 25
cents day An offer of 10 per cent ad-
vance was refused. Fears are enter
tanned that the strike may become gen
eral throughout the valley.
There is serious strike in the mines
at Altamont, Kentucky. The contro-
versy which caused the strike arose
from the screening.
The trouble of the brewers in Plila-
delphia still drags along. A number Of
the small breweries have given in, but
the great monopolies have refused to
surrender. The Baltimore Central
Labor Union has passed a resolution
boycottlng all beer manufactured in
Philadelphia by the brewers who are
still resisting.
Six K. of L. organizers are to be put
in the field Immediately by D. A. lis,
w. T., there being twenty assemblies all
really for organization in this district.
Furniture fnishers national conven-
tion met In Cincinn iti, Ohio, February 8.
Last week the sho, manufacturers of
Worcester, Massachusetts. took the
most aggressive step so far made by
posting notices in all the shops in Spen.
GER Brookield and North Brookfield
that hereafter they would recognize no
labor organization of any kind. but that
all men would be hired as individuals.
These shops have all been closed for re-
pairs for week or two. More than
$1,000 persons are employed. Senator
Robert Howard, who is at the head OF
district 80. SAYS that strike is almost
| inevitable.